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Lesson 57: Burmese words with Single Tones: 'Lit', 'Bit', 'Wit' Group

We will end the Burmese Vocabulary list with single tone words that sound like 'Bit', 'Fit', 'Jig', 'Kid', 'Lid', 'Nick', 'Pit', 'Myth'.
Those words are romanized with it ending for consistency, so when you see the romanization
sit,
it should be pronounced with silent t.

Most words will end with either
စ် | sa1-thut on the right side of the character, or
modified consonant character. At least one word is spelled with
ဇ် | za1-thut as in
ယဇ် | yit meaning sacrificial offering.

In an exception, it is spelled with ​ေ | thway2-hto3 on the
right side, and တ် | tah1-thut on the right as in
ခေတ် | khit.

Some of those single tone words sound and romanized like existing English words. If you are viewing this page with google translator,
beware that those words meant to show how they sound in English will be translated into your language, which was not the
intention. Be sure to refer back to the original English page to see how the words sound.

ရှိခိုး | shit-kho3 -
pay obeisance as in ဘုရားရှိခိုး |
pfa1-ya3 shit-kho3
- Burmese Buddhists to raise the palms together in kneeling position to pay respect in front of the image of the Buddha.

ရှစ် | shit
- eight.

လစ် | lit
- (1) to slip away. E.g., တောက်၊ ဒီကောင် ဘော်လုံးပွဲကြည့်ဖို့ လစ်သွားပြန်ပြီ။ |
TOUT! de2 koun2 bau2-lone3-pweare3 kji1 pfo1 lit thwa3 pyan2 byi2 - Darn! (clicking sound made with
the tongue to show anger) This guy has slipped out again to watch the soccer match. (2) lapse in consciousness as in
သတိလစ် | dtha1-di1 lit. (4) to take opportunity of
the moment when no one is watching or anticipating and make an attack or steal. E.g.,
ပိုက်ဆံအိတ်ကို အလစ်သုတ်သွားတယ်။ |
pike-hsun2-ate go2 a-lit thoat thwa3 deare2 - (the thief) snatched the purse when no one was looking.
Other usage: လစ်လပ် | lit-lut - vacant; inadequate.

လှစ် | hlit
- (1) to open as in ဖွင့်လှစ် | pfwin1-hlit. (2) to define the meaning of
a word.

ဝစ္စပေါက် | WIT-sa1-pout
- also known as ဝစ္စနှစ်လုံးပေါက် | WIT-sa1 hna1-lone3 pout -
tonal change symbol in Myanmar language to indicate the third tone. The symbol looks like an English punctuation mark colon (:).